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snarp · 6 months
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Was puzzled as to why I could hear some guy screaming angrily continuously for like 20 minutes, but then realized church was going on and that was the preacher telling everyone they're going to hell.
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i was a troublemaker kid without realizing i was a troublemaker kid and now troublemaker kids flock to me because i'm one of the few adults who don't assume the worst about them. there are kids i used to talk to back when i was a sunday school teacher, like--a hair's breadth away from joining gang's kinda kids--and they STILL ask around about me even though neither of us goes to that church anymore. and i'd get so pissed because the other sunday school teacher's would ask me how i got them to be so "obedient" and "well-behaved" and literally all i'd ever do is show basic fucking compassion and constantly give them the benefit of the doubt. if they were ever in the wrong, they'd tell me themselves because they trusted me enough to do it and i'd always show my gratitude for their honesty and help them work through the mistake/apologize to another person if needed. and i'd hug them always because i never wanted them to think that affection is something that needs to be earned. and i hate hate hate to think that i was their biggest source of comfort because these kids have families and teachers and people who should be doing that! anyway, i don't know why i'm thinking about this again. i think about it often. honestly, one of the reasons why it took me so long to leave the church was because i didn't want to leave behind the kids. i hope they found other people who want to understand them more than they want to correct them. i hope they found other people who try to be a safe space for them more than they want to feel proud of themselves for taming the wild kids. i hope they find other people who love them as they are without making them work for it first. and i hope those people stay, because that's the one thing i couldn't do for those kids
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merelaes · 10 months
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Sometimes, I think about to the summer of my senior year in high school when my best friend and I went to my grandparents for the summer. We had been asked to attend c.hurch and help set up their vbs theme. It was game of thrones. I remember holding up the stag banner and just dying.
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blxsscd-x-fxrsakcn · 2 years
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aeide-thea · 1 year
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Stained glass by Constantine Woolnough, 1858 Church of St Mary, Dennington, Suffolk Photography by Simon Knott
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fiveminuterice · 2 years
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praying to a higher power
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davidbuckleshun · 3 months
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I'm actually alive! Hooray!
Have a Gabriel Nun fanart
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hirochuu · 3 months
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𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖗𝖔𝖇𝖊𝖉
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prairiedeath · 1 year
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all-things-breathing · 4 months
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growing up in hispanic churches is wild because what do you mean that I have to use the formal You for nearly everyone I meet (unless they’re younger), but I have to use the informal You for GOD????
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cry-ptidd · 5 months
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I just wanted to say that I think the werewolf lady is pretty
And have her and Anderson met before? And was it a hostile interaction or a wholesome one??
Her and Anderson’s first meeting really wasn’t wholesome.
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victoriadallonfan · 20 days
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I don't agree with a lot of Sanderson's politics - and they aren't, in fact, based in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints doctrine, but rather Utah culture - but it also makes me pretty uncomfortable to hear you badmouthing the church I'm part of?
I badmouth religious organizations in general, Catholic Church included (in which I was raised) because they tend to be overwhelmingly corrupt and abusive towards their own church members (and especially towards people outside of them)
Mormonism in particular is especially bad for how being part of the church requires “tithings” from paychecks plus their treatment of women, minorities, and even men in ways that are almost so explicitly manipulative and cultish that it feels like it comes out of parody.
(For example, I simply declared, “I am no longer catholic” and that was it. Done. You cannot generally do the same in LDS without incredible backlash and slander by its members)
And it’s very obvious when it shows up in fictional books by a lot of Mormon writers, because it’s so conservative that it’s a step or two behind the times.
It’s not as bad as Westeros Westboro Baptist Church or Scientology, but that’s not a high bar to clear.
If your time in the church was different, I’m happy for you, because it means you likely avoided the worst parts of their abuse.
Still, if you have the time, I’d suggest watching these videos (in no particular order):
Why I Left Mormonism - Video covering the creation of the channel “Cults to Consciousness” and her abusive home life under the church
The BITE Model - Simple PowerPoint explaining the reoccurring factors of cults
Ex-Mormon Cast Reacts to Mormon Debates -Cast of ex-Mormon members react to a Mormon debate and highlight various lies and falsehoods presented, as well talk about teachings/history Mormon Church does not want revealed publicly
How the Mormon Church ‘Help Line’ Hid Child Abuse - Exactly what it says. Survivors speak out and the church has done nothing for them or worse.
If you don’t want to watch these videos, if you can’t stomach the testimonies, ask yourself and others these questions:
- How often are you allowed to preach about Heavenly Mother?
- How often do you see women in power within the church, as in, deciding doctrine and not just playing piano or making food for the men?
- How often do you see minorities in power within the church, as in, deciding doctrine or being treated as a token?
- How often does your church talk about the incredibly high suicide rates for children and how it’s associated with its practices?
- How come when a racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic etc Prophet speaks its “the word of God” and doctrine, but then another Prophet can simply claim it was mere “policy”. Was ‘God’ lying to the prophets? Were the prophets lying about God? How can you trust what is their words and what is God?
- How come the church hid $30 Billion dollars from the public and even its own lower members?
- How come the founder lied about what was on the Egyptian papyrus, claiming it was a translation from God, but people who can actually read Egyptian pointed out he was lying?
- How come you get treated differently for asking these supposedly easy to answer questions?
I do not go after Brandon or you because you happen to be religious. I think belief in a higher power is one’s own choice and prerogative.
I instead care far more about the religious system that is using well-intended people like pawns for goals that pretty much boil down to money and power.
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vampyre-kin · 9 months
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Ghostly Southern Gothic Vibes
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bekkathyst · 7 months
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Basilika St. Michael
Mondsee, Austria
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alien-bluez · 3 months
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I think Lark would be a pretty good cult leader, y'know?
alt. color versions under the cut!
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latenightvisitor · 3 months
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